On 2018/04/25 23:05:08, Dan Eble wrote:
On 2018/04/25 10:44:22, dak wrote: > It still has the disadvantage of adding a new class as baggage,
making it harder
> for newcomers interpreting code. In particular the necessity of
overloading *,
> &, and -> operators raises the amount of knowledge required for
maintenance and
> debugging. I am rather doubtful that this would be a good tradeoff
so I would
> not want to encourage you to indulge in a significant amount of work
here which
> I may not want to see added to the code base after all.
If you're at least open to reviewing something concrete, I'll put
something
together, but not today. Thanks for your time so far.
I have forgotten one consideration: we convert pointers along the class hierarchy (like between Grob * and Item *) and a similar conversion of a user-created type would not likely work in a comparable manner. https://codereview.appspot.com/341150043/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
